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    An Introduction

    Why The Rite Journey?

    Andrew Lines, creator and director of The Rite Journey, explains the background to the program, what today's adolescents are grappling with and how The Rite Journey can help.

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  • ABC News Report

    March 22, 2011

    An Adelaide program aims to turn boys into responsible men

    Watch a short TV article from Adelaide's 7:30 Report focusing on the boys' program run by The Rite Journey.

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  • The Rite Journey is a wonderful contribution to this next generation.
    They will benefit greatly from it.

    Now we have The Rite Journey which offers girls a profound, intricate, and imaginative journey. It enables girls to access substantial information and experiences. It feeds their inner self, allowing them to get to know themselves, and to start to shape their future. {Read more}

    MAGGIE HAMILTON, Author

  • The New Manhood

    August 30, 2010

    Steve Biddulph endorses
    The Rite Journey in his recent release 'The New Manhood'.

    Read about The Rite Journey in an excerpt from Chapter 5,
    From Boy to Man.

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  • Building Resilience

    Through overcoming challenges

    In a world where the 'bubble-wrapping' of children can deny them of opportunities to build confidence and learn problem solving strategies, The Rite Journey uses challenges throughout the year to help young people learn to overcome obstacles and to develop resilience. {Read more}

  • Deepening Education

    Lighting the fire

    Much of today's education has become concerned with 'filling the pail'...at the expense of providing heart experiences for young people.

    The Rite Journey uses time-honoured processes to create memorable moments of ceremony to celebrate this important transition. {Read more}


What We Do

The Rite Journey provides unique educational programs designed to support the development of self-aware, vital, responsible, respectful & resilient adults.

By raising young people’s consciousness about transitioning from child to adult & having conversations with them about what really matters we can assist in guiding their journey into adulthood.

The year-long program uses a Rite of Passage framework to deepen the students’ experience of this important life transition.

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Why We Do It

We aim to make a positive difference in a society where:

  • boys are under-fathered & the media displays role models making poor choices
  • girls are prematurely sexualised & popular media presents unobtainable role models
  • young people average 30 hours a week in front of a screen at the expense of human connection
  • sociologists now suggest that adolescence spans from age 10 to 30

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How We Do It

Specially developed programs involve adolescents in reflection, discussion and developing strategies around transitioning into adulthood.

The Rite Journey – a year-long program in which teachers are trained to deliver a comprehensive program to students in their school.

The Rite Way – a one day program in which Rite Journey facilitators attend schools to deliver a one day experience for students.

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“With the huge amount of social and technological change that has taken place in recent times, too often our girls have been left to find their own way forward, causing them to turn to peers … {Read more}

Maggie Hamilton

Maggie Hamilton

Author of "What's Happening to Our Girls?"

“The Rite Journey is already one of the best initiation into successful adulthood programs for adolescents in the world . It is therefore an honor and a pleasure to work with Andrew and Graham to make this program even better… {Read more}

Peter Ellyard

Peter Ellyard

Futurist, Author "Designing 2050"

“The presentation by Andrew Lines and Graham Gallasch regarding The Rite Journey was universally well-received by attendees at the Fourth International NASSPE Conference (Memphis, Tennessee)… {Read more}

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Leonard Sax

Author "Boys Adrift" and "Why Gender Matters"

“The Rite Journey is having a significant impact on our Year 9 group. I had great confidence in The Rite Journey prior to implementing the program but this year I continue to be surprised by … {Read more}

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Brian Kennelly

Principal, Kinross Wolaroi School, NSW

Who Is Already Teaching It
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Victory Lutheran College
Wodonga, Vic
Commenced: 2011

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Moriah College
Queen's Park, NSW
Commenced: 2012

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Gilson College
Taylor's Hill, VIC
Commenced: 2013
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Dominic College
Hobart, TAS
Commenced: 2013
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Ocean Forest Lutheran College
Dalyellup, WA
Commenced: 2011

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Knox Grammar
Wahroonga, NSW
Commenced: 2012
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Kinross Wolaroi School
Orange, NSW
Commenced: 2011
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Pulteney Grammar
Adelaide, SA
Commenced: 2012

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St Stephens College Duncraig
Duncraig, WA
Commenced: 2012

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Latest News

THE RITE JOURNEY FEATURES IN SOUTH KOREAN DOCUMENTARY

Posted October 23, 2012 by Andrew Lines

The Korean Educational Broadcaster EBS has screened a documentary on helping transition boys into manhood.  The documentary has footage of Lilydale Adventist Academy and their Rite Journey Co-ordinator Dustin Dever, along with interviews with some of the boys from the class, Andrew Lines sharing some of the aims of the program and Steve Biddulph discussing some issues with boys transitioning.  The bulk of the narration is in Korean although all interviews with Rite Journey participants are in English.

Andrew will be returning to Korea early next year to work with Kongjin Middle School.  They will be implementing an adapted version of The Rite Journey to their students and EBS will be producing a second documentary…this time of Kongjin Middle School implementing The Rite Journey over the course of a year.

 

 

 

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Letter from Rite Journey student to staff

Posted June 14, 2012 by Andrew Lines

I received this email and letter today from the deputy at a Rite Journey school.
I wish we could give the general public the experience of how gorgeous boys really are…when we actually sit with them, spend time with them, listen to them, care for them..

EMAIL FROM DEPUTY:

Attached is a letter from a student that refers to a distinct moment of learning.
For those that have dealt with him over the years, he has often presented a very well worked and apparently sincere account of bullying issues and harassment directed at him. Because of his articulate nature, high academic ability and pleasant nature, his account of any event has often been given significant weight. However, over time, some staff have picked up that he may not always be giving a complete and accurate account of events! It became clear that he would deflect blame, accuse others, deny everything.

As a result of the past few lessons in The Rite Journey – focussed on the importance of your word as a man, admitting mistakes, apologising, etc. – it appears that he has had an epiphany.

LETTER FROM STUDENT

To Whom It May Concern

In the few years I have been at the school, I have been involved in more incidents than most people will witness in their whole life. In most of the events I have made out that I am the victim and am not at all responsible. This is (as you already know) not true, I often lie to get myself out of trouble and to avoid punishment.
In Rite Journey, we are currently learning that telling the truth is not the best option, but the only option. When you admit guilt, you understand that what you did was wrong. When you do this, your sentence is normally reduced by one-third.
Punishment is a way of placing criminals on the straight and narrow. By not ever receiving punishment, I did not register what I was doing as wrong and did not try to fix it.
I used to lie a lot at home, to the point where my parents were not able to tell if I was telling the truth. This damaged our relationship, but I have since overcome this problem and we have become closer than ever before.
A possible new motto for the school is “Turning boys into gentlemen”…I want to become a man, and the first step to doing so is to stop lying.

Yours Sincerely

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